Re: [tlug] LAN card install

["Keith Bawden" <keith@example.com>]

On 12/16/06, Shawn <javajunkie@example.com> wrote:
> > Check the output of lsmod. This will tell you which modules have been loaded.
>
> 8139too
> 8139cp were loaded

Good. This likely means you nic has been detected and the correct
modules have been inserted.

> > Do you know how to configure networking under Linux?
>
> no.

On the command line run the following command. It should let you know
if eth0 is available:

ifconfig eth0

If all looks well then you should be able to use the gui to configure
your network settings.

> > In a previous post you said: "2) ? configure how.  I deleted all
> > hardware and device entries and rebooted and the following is what was
> > detected."
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure what you have done here... When installing new
> > hardware I have never started of by deleting things,
>
> me neither.  just using the gui.  the hardware that was listed was not
> what matched what my motherboard manual says would be.  I noticed an
> entry for the correct hardware.  so i deleted and created an entry for
> the hardware and device.  that was for the onboard lan.
>
> thought that it wouldn't work due to the driver (based on google)
>
> so got rid of all entries and put in a new card then rebooted.
> didn't touch the entries after rebooting.

If you go back to that gui application now do you see a network card?
If so you should be able to configure it within the gui normally.

Regards, Keith